Tag: airship
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“Crossing The Atlantic Feasible” Says Prof. Rotch Of Harvard
It seems that every week brings another story about air travel, and this one brings good news for those aeronauts planning to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airship: a Harvard Professor has just completed a study of wind currents that could dramatically cut your travel time. “It is evident that the currents in the…
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Problems Of First Transatlantic Balloon Trip
By 1910, Walter Wellman had made three unsuccessful attempts to fly an airship to the North Pole when he set his sites instead on crossing the Atlantic. This article describes the ambitious trip and explains how Wellman and his crew will overcome the obstacles they will surely face. Spoiler alert! They didn’t make it. But…
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